It turned out that the hundred horse infantry in front were just bait to lure them into the range of the muskets of the militia hidden in the forest.

Chen Tang's mind flashed, he knew that he couldn't stop at this time, and if he stopped, he would be a target, and he couldn't turn around, one hundred and fifty cavalry, he had to turn around and backwards in an open space less than thirty meters wide, and the delay was enough for the musket militia in the woods and the horse infantry in front to kill them all.

Now there is only one way, and that is to keep moving forward.

Thinking of this, Chen Tang shouted loudly: "Forward, continue to move forward, step on the few baby cavalry in front, you can escape, you can't stop, stop is a live target, ...... forward"

After a moment's pause, the cavalry charged forward again......

It's a pity it's too late......

Yang Miaozhen ambushed two hundred musket militia in the woods on the side, and in front of him was a hundred horse infantry equipped with arquebuses, a total of three hundred muskets, one hundred and fifty cavalry charged, paused, and charged again, just twenty or thirty seconds of delay, so that three hundred muskets fired two rounds at close range, especially the militia in the woods on the side, only twenty or thirty meters away from the shooting target, such a close distance, even if it was an arquebus, the accuracy would not be bad, so this group of cavalry did not complete their dream of catching up with the Yiyuan baby cavalry.

This beautiful ambush once again opened up the intelligence channel from Yiyuan to Laiwu.

Yang Miaozhen even dared to lead a hundred and ten cavalry to rush to a place not far from Laiwu County to get information.

After opening the intelligence channel, Chen Xian soon got the news that Wan Yan Pingtao, the general of the Tianping Army who had been defeated by him last time, had led the army to come again.

Hearing that it was the defeated subordinate last time, Chen Xian was not happy.

Wanyan Pingtao failed once, and dared to come again, naturally he was prepared, and if it was other Jin army generals who came, Chen Xian could also use the cannon to catch the other party off guard, and the cannon was used to scare people, which was more effective than the actual effect.

After receiving the news, Chen Xian asked the intelligence team to hurry up and continue to inquire about more detailed things, and on the other hand, he sent an elite reconnaissance team composed of mountain soldiers to go to the foot of the mountain north of Laiwu and find a way to infiltrate Fengfu County to investigate the Jin army from the Tianping Army of Dongping Prefecture.

Chen Xian's intelligence department and the reconnaissance company in the army are two completely different departments.

The Intelligence Service mainly uses unarmed means to collect and steal intelligence, mostly for routine intelligence gathering, while the reconnaissance company mainly uses armed reconnaissance methods and is mostly used for pre-military reconnaissance.

The cavalry of the generals was once again annihilated by the Yiyuan army, which once again caused a great shock in the Laiwu Haoqiang, although this fiasco made the Haoqiang no longer dare to arrogantly send troops to blockade Yiyuan, but also made the Haoqiang of Laiwu more determined to eliminate Chen Xian.

was blocked again, and Chen Xian completely died of the idea of peaceful coexistence with the Laiwu heroes.

Having made up his mind, Chen Xian moved his line from Xizhuangzi to Tangjiazhuang, and the army also moved to Tangjiazhuang, and established a military fortress near the entrance of the mountain forest to the west of Tangjiazhuang.

After moving to Tangjiazhuang, Chen Xian threw the government affairs to the administrative system he had already established in the three Zhuangzi, personally stationed in the military camp, and began a new round of intensive training.

In the past few months after the Laiwu armed parade, Chen Xian did not expand the number of troops, but the quality of the army has been greatly improved.

First of all, the armor, with the participation of the hydraulic hammer and the iron tie machine, the production efficiency of the plate armor is much higher than that of the zha armor or even the cloth face armor, after a few months of full production, more than half of the army under his command has completed the redress.

But because of the blockade, the little coal and iron that Chen Xian had managed to hoard some time ago was once again sold out.

This forced Chen Xian to change his strategy against Laiwu County.

More than 10 days later, the reconnaissance team sent out by Chen Xian finally sent back the information.

The intelligence of the reconnaissance team confirmed the information sent back by the intelligence department, and there was indeed a section of the Tianping Army of the Jin Army, numbering about 5,000 people, stationed in the middle of several Jurchen villages near Laiwu in Fengfu County under the pretext of protecting the Jurchen villages.

This golden army trained very diligently every day, and what surprised the reconnaissance team was that this golden army actually roared with cannons and muskets during the training.

The reconnaissance team ventured into the Jurchen stockade, infiltrated the Jin army camp at night, stole a musket and gunpowder used by the Jin army, observed their cannons up close, drew the appearance of the cannons with pencils, and attached detailed text descriptions.

Jin Jun's musket, gunpowder and large ** painting instructions were sent to Chen Xian.

After reading it, he couldn't help but sigh, he thought that muskets, artillery, and gunpowder would leak and spread, but he didn't think that it would be so fast, he still underestimated the characters of this era, this Yan Pingtao did not leave a name in history, but he also had a good vision.

But if it leaks, it will be leaked, and this kind of thing will inevitably be avoided sooner or later, and if one day the Mongolian iron cavalry gives up riding and shooting and comes to play with him with gunpowder and muskets, it is not a bad thing, and it is not good to be able to bring the enemy into the field that he is good at.

Wanyan Pingtao made the musket, the accuracy and rate of fire are far inferior to the arquebus, and it is not worth fearing, what surprised Chen Xian was their gunpowder, it has only been more than half a year, and the Jin people have already made black powder with a similar formula, although the power is still a little insufficient, and the amount of residue after burning is relatively large, but it is enough.

What worries Chen Xian the most is the other party's cannon, judging from the drawings and descriptions sent back by the reconnaissance team, this kind of iron cannon reinforced with iron hoops is about a small cannon of about one catty, but the weight of the cannon is about the same as Chen Xian's five-catty cannon.

What worries Chen Xian is not this bulky cannon, but the cannon casting technology embodied in this bulky cannon.

Sooner or later, the other party will find out that Chen Xian's cannon is cast in copper, as long as the other party switches to copper casting, it is not a fantasy to cast a cannon with the same power and weight as the cannon in Chen Xian's hand, after all, there are no technical difficulties in casting cannons in the early days.

And the threat of artillery to Chen Xian's dense phalanx was too great.

After understanding the strength of his opponent, Chen Xian finally made the decision to take the initiative.

Although Chen Xian desperately hoarded a lot of materials some time ago, but with the completion of two new hydraulic factories in Dongzhuangzi, while the productivity has increased, the consumption of materials has become more serious......

Coupled with the food problem, if he does not break through the current blockade, Chen Xian will be in trouble again.

This sortie is no longer just an armed march to scare people, Chen Xian needs to open a breakthrough in the direction of Laiwu, even if it attracts more Jin troops.